Motivations in Battlefield Tourism: The Case of ‘1916 Easter Rising Rebellion’, Dublin

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 321-330

  Kokkranikal, Jithendran ^a   Yang, Yeon Sun ^a   Powell, Ray ^a   Booth, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Battlefield tourism; Dark tourism; Dublin; Easter rising; Pilgrimage; Thana tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045986137     PISSN: 21987246     EISSN: 21987254     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27528-4_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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